38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals To date, over 5000 exoplanet candidates have been discovered orbiting around isolated stars. All of these stars once existed in open star clusters, yet the existence of exop…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
To date, over 5000 exoplanet candidates have been discovered orbiting around isolated stars. All of these stars once existed in open star clusters, yet the existence of exoplanets in open cl…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research project is to assess the mutagenicities of three major herbicides: 2,4-D, atrazine, and trifluralin, in an effort to determine if the substances…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General) First Award
Objectives/Goals In 2014, California avocado farmers lost over 40 million dollars in crop damage due to root rot caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi. This pathogen infects the roots of avocado…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals Autism spectrum disorder is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects 1 in 68 children and lasts a lifetime. Autistic people periodically experience intense, fr…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to test different types of metal cooking pots to determine which one would leach the most amounts of metals when boiled in a 25% citric acid solution for 30…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Polystyrene was first commercially used in 1938 and is better known by the trademarked name ‘Styrofoam.’ Polystyrene is used in a wide range of products ranging from food beverage containers…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
The prevalence of malicious computer viruses has exploded in recent years. Anti-malware software, the natural defensive corollary, has not innovated on the same level, leading to the need fo…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
This project aims to develop a technology-based solution for enabling people with physical disabilities to perform motor tasks. In its initial stage, this was substantiated by the use of ele…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2013), more than 10,000 people die each year in alcohol-impaired and drowsy driving crashes. To prevent such…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: To understand how to build the most efficient windmill. The focus will be to change the windmill blade angles and measure the change in the number of rotations pe…
CSEF · 2015
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals My goal is to prove that infusing carbon black particles and graphene into common elastic natural rubber bands can create flexible, high sensitivity strain sensors useful fo…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
This project in its present form is the result of electrochemical production, analysis with new optical methods and application of aluminumoxide for a new electroluminescent device. The init…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Rhizomania poses a major problem to sugar beet worldwide, as it not only causes physical harm to the roots but also reduces the quality of sugar yield by up to 95%. Rhizoman…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has the shortest survival time of any cancer, and affects more than 850,000 people worldwide as the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Understan…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals The main goals of my project are (1) to develop simple, cost-effective, reusable electrochemical sensor arrays (electronic tongue and electronic nose) that can simultaneousl…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Movies have progressed dramatically over the years, but no one has produced inexpensive 3-dimensional sound. I love film and the process of post-production sound. The purpos…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals I want to find out if the Doppler Effect can be used to measure the speed of a toy car with a buzzer mounted on top. I found in my research that Doppler's formula relates th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering First Award
In this innovative research, a novel oncolytic virus, AM105, is designed to target and selectively kill cancer cells. Current methods of cancer treatment including radiation and chemotherapy…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science First Award
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant global health problem that affects over 31 million Americans. Kidney transplantation is an effective treatment for CKD, but is limited by donor…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to find out if solar panels are more efficient at a certain temperature, when a certain color of light is shined on it, or when fluorescent…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of our project was to test if nicotinamide and curcumin, two natural compounds, are viable treatments for Parkinson's disease. We assessed the effects of nicotinami…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
The world today faces an increasing shortage of food production due to the exponential growth in the human population and deficiencies in resources. Updated genetic engineering has been util…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
The current design of gene expression studies makes data sets susceptible to bias and hinders cross-platform comparison. To address these issues, an unprecedented global-scale meta-analysis…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
There is no simple sensor for the direct real-time measuring of the concentration of gas mixtures to date. While there are a variety of different probes for gas measuring, these are usually…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals A scratch wound heal assay using primary human dermal fibroblasts was conducted to determine if using Manuka honey as a topical healing agent promotes faster in vitro wound…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine how some of the most common light sources exposed to aquatic life containing chlorophyll a would affect their concentration…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science First Award
After over three decades of HIV vaccine research, no suitable vaccine exists for clinical use today. As a result, a novel HIV vaccine modality is urgently needed. Recently, fifty percent of…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to predict anti-Ebola virus drug targets and to design RNAi-based small RNA drugs and mimotope-based peptide vaccines. Methods/Materials A total of 262 RNA/…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if there is right light and wall paint in a room; then, the mood will improve to create better lifestyle for a person, because wall paint and light…